This month in the Studio

Marketing is hard. I’d much rather be painting or walking Mable or just about anything else but it’s a necessary part of being an artist. The mysterious and ever evolving algorithm on Facebook and Instagram make it that much harder. My audience grows very slowly, I’m just at 300 followers on IG and that took 6 years! My Facebook hack last summer pretty much decimated my art page and followers.

I was listening to a podcast the other day that got me thinking about how to draw my followers, collectors and friends to a non IG/FB platform and it dawned on me that my very much under utilized blog and gallery is right here on WordPress.

Introducing: This Month is the Studio! Each month, I say with the best of intention, I will be putting out a newsletter type blog taking about what I’m working on: my ideas, success’, failures and general goings on from my home studio and of course my new pieces ready for purchase.

March 2022 (because why not start now)

Since January I have been taking a free, weekly online workshop, painting and creating with a group of women from all over the world. Paint Wisdom Studio is the creative baby of Connie Solera and this workshop is called Monopalette. It is so refreshing and inspiring for me to learn and share with this wonderful and supportive community.

My Warrior Women and my Ladies art series’, which I’ve been playing with for the last little while, are finding their voice lately. I’ll be sharing these pieces in my blog as the months unfold. But here is a sneak peak to a few pieces that I sketched out while I was at the off grid cabin last fall.

I am not going for super detailed with my Ladies, just an impression and a feeling of who they represent.

I’ve also recently started to keep both an art journal and a studio log. I’ve always only painted on canvas or canvas paper so it blew my mind to see the art journals of my fellow participants! One journal is even an older hardcover book that I paint in! A radical, mind blowing idea that found a perfect home in an old copy of the Sword and the Stone. I finally have one place to keep track of my ideas instead of pieces of scrap paper taped to my wall!

A page from my art journal

In next month’s “In the Studio” I’ll talk about getting ready for the show at the end of the month; how I decide which paintings to take and of course my creations!

Thanks for reading my little blog! See you next month! 🎨 on!